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Playing cards have color illustrations and suits and blank versos. Cards are translucent and illustrated with hidden illustrated scenes, captions include Biblical proverbs.
Herbarius, Rogatu plurimorum in opum nummorum egentium appotecas refutantium occasione illa quia necessaria ibidem ad corpus egrum spectantium sunt cara ..., and Herbarius latinus
Description:
Title from incipit on leaf pi2r., Imprint from Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke., Signatures: pi⁴ a-u⁸ x¹⁰ (pi1 blank)., Includes 150 woodcut illustrations of plants., Initial spaces, some with guide-letters., Pages [1]-[2] are blank., Text in Latin; plant names under many of the woodcuts given in Latin and French., Includes some red lettering., and BAC Leaf Collection no. 0427: Imperfect: 3 leaves only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Title from item., Date and place of publication from item., From: Realdo Colombo, De Re Anatomica, libri xv, Venetiis: N. Beuilacquae, 1559, title page., The design of this print is attributed, by tradition, to Paolo Veronese., and Written in cartouche upper center: Realdi Columbi Cremonensis, in almo gymnasio Romano Anatomici celeberrimi, De re anatomica libri XV.
Publisher:
Ex Typographia Nicolai Beuilacquae
Subject (Name):
Colombo, Realdo, 1516-1559,
Subject (Topic):
Human dissection, Medical education, Human anatomy, Dead persons, Physicians, Books, and Children
The Holy Bible, : containing the Old and New Testaments: with the Apocrypha. / Translated out of
Image Count:
13
Subject (Topic):
Bible. O.T
Collection Created:
United States of America. Printed at the press in Worcester, Massachusetts, : by Isaiah Thomas. Sold by him in Worcester; and by him and Company, at Faust’s Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street, Boston., MDCCXCI. [1791]
